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Anyone having problems with Facebook pages related to viewing the page's newsfeeed. I wash helping create a page for a department through that person's personal account and once the page was created it didn't offer an option to fully switch to acting as that page. In fact the pull down arrow to "Use Facebook as" wasn't even an option. The newsfeed she sees is her own. She can still post to the page as the page, but she can't fully engage with other like-minded pages.﻿

Hi everyone, I was wondering who has a social media policy for your campus - one that lays out that social media use follows same university laws, rules of conduct etc. If so, would anyone mind sharing the link, and also if your legal team reviewed it or it was approved by committee. We have a policy but it was pulled together quickly in 2011 and is in need of revision. Thanks!﻿

I did a quick browse of the post topics and didn't see one regarding social media campaigns during freshmen orientation, move-in day, or first week/welcome week. Anyone have any fun ways they have promoted their social media sites during the start of an academic year?﻿

We did a push last year starting with Move-in, New Student Convocation and going into Orientation which ended at our annual Street Fair. You can see the results here: https://storify.com/LIMCollege/limfall2014I am going to follow a similar plan this year.﻿

+ZAGAT is conducting a 12 days of Foodie cheer holiday photo contest. I entered this one I took of my mother-in-law's cookies, and plan to look for other pictures I've taken of food during the holiday. Why not...﻿

This kid is awesome. If I had been born in the U.S. I would've been a programmer / engineer. I was able to teach myself HTML at 13, before I learned how to copy/paste and a lot of the basic things you do on computers. The Internet showed up at my door step at the same time a computer did. But living in Guatemala meant that a business degree made more sense, and while I'm grateful I chose that path, I wished I had the time to learn how to develop.

Today's kids are born with connected devices and they'll do amazing things we cannot even imagine today.

Looking for best practices for engagement via social media to share with a group of people on campus who oversee social media accounts for their dept/program. Many admit to not being very savvy in the area; the task was just given to them.I'm thinking the first meeting would be to go over the social media policy/guidelines that I've been fine-tuning, but I know they're going to want to hear from me how to gain more followers. I plan to talk about cross promotion, engaging with other accounts, but also providing content that will be of interest and valuable to their audience, but I'd love to hear from you what tips you have to share .And if you've lead such a meeting before and continue to, what are some agenda items you cover?﻿

I would start at the beginning. Doing social media for more followers is like doing advertising to win awards. It is clearly the wrong metric. If you start with the right metric, you can then determine what, when and how to post.

I like to tell people the biggest picture metric for social media is applications and love.

If you're in the apps business, then things are easy.

If you're in the love business, then things get more squishy. Love might be a follow, attending an event, or telling a story with a hashtag. It also might be a donation to the school by an alum. But it is still love, and the behavior you want to generate should be front and center in your desire to create content and do work on platforms. Does that post really generate a behavior? No, then please, do something else because it is already noisy out there. Does your post advance the behavior you want?

Yes? Well then, lets talk. Or post. By all means, hit submit because we all win. ﻿

Anyone having problems sharing posts of others to the campus Facebook page they administer? When I do I get a message that says "Amy Bentley-Smith doesn't allow people to post on their Timeline. You can try sending this as a message instead." and the heading of the box that says this says "timeline posts are off" but they aren't. just started happening today.﻿

This may be more general university communications questions but... has anyone developed/implemented a student-centric communications campaign where communications interns created videos, web pages, social media sites, etc. with the aim of building greater awareness of student services/academic resources on campus? Examples?﻿

Sort of. We are in the process of setting something up for our SCORE project. Students are producing videos, blogs, social media posts, etc., about their undergraduate research projects with the aim of building awareness for undergraduate research. The main site isn't live yet, though, so I can't send you a link.﻿

I too have been remiss in introducing myself. I work at California State University, Dominguez Hills in its Office of University Communications and Public Affairs. I have been overseeing the university's social media presence since 2007. Social media is only one of my responsibilities, and as a result I am not as strategic as I want to be, and only keep up with the trends when I have down time. I'm trying to carve out scheduled time to stay up-to-date. Right now we're mostly active on Facebook, second Twitter, third Instagram, and to some degree we're on Pinterest and Linkedin.﻿

Some really beautiful old trees have been uprooted from last night's winds, to be sure, and the +Los Angeles Times photographers capture some great shots of their loss and damage to property. But i couldn't help laughing at the one below of the Christmas tree lot -- already felled felled trees. Quelle horreur!!﻿

The toll from a firece California windstorm continued to mount Thursday as officials closed Griffith Park, workers struggled to restore power to 340,000 homes and some roads remained blocked by fallen...

I am a university media relations and new media specialist but also writer and editor. I've always been interested in exploring ways of communicating. My forays into social networking began as an early adopter of Facebook and Twitter, but even before that I can remember online chatting in the 1990s (anyone remember AOL?)!